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Welcome to the National Gamete Donation Trust

Our site is a hub of a clear and practical information about donating and receiving eggs, sperm and embryos in the UK.

Whether you’re an actual or potential donor, intended parent, clinic, journalist, researcher, professional or interested friend or relative, our goal is to ensure you receive all the relevant information and support you need.

Welcome to our world. We’re delighted you’ve found us.

The National Gamete Donation Trust (NGDT) is the national body running the National Gamete Donation Services. We are a registered charity (Charity Number116390). Our work has three different strands within the field of gamete (egg and sperm) and embryo donation:

We support and empower gamete and embryo donors. We also work with potential recipients, UK licensed fertility clinics, the media and support organisations to raise awareness of the need for gamete and embryo donors.

We manage the Donor Conceived Register to enable donors and people conceived through donated sperm or eggs before August 1991 to exchange information and, where desired, to contact each other

Patron Diana Brittan CBE (Lady Brittan) Staff NGDT’s day-day-day work is carried out by a small (yet mighty) team of tenacious professionals:

Pip Morris, National Coordinator.

Trustees The NGDT has a dedicated Board of Trustees, which includes:

Charles Lister OBE, Chair of Trustees

Andrew Waters, Deputy Chair

Gavin Evans

Tim Fox

John Kilby

Advisory Council The NGDT Advisory Council comprises expert members from: Organisations

British Andrology Society

British Fertility Society

British Infertility Counselling Association

Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge

Department of Health

Donor Conceived Register Registrants’ Panel

Donor Conception Network

Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority

Infertility Network UK

King’s College London, DNA Analysis

Multiple Births Foundation

Royal College of Nursing, Fertility Nurses Group

The Progress Educational Trust

PROGAR (Project Group on Assisted Reproduction).

Individuals

Kate Brian, Author and Journalist

Brian Lieberman, Retired Consultant in Reproductive Medicine

Pamela White, Specialist Associate Lecturer in Medical Law and Ethics, University of Kent.